![]() ![]() The length of the reel depends on the size of the inground pool. The idea was to prevent ice from cracking the lens, which just doesnt happen.The core of the automatic pool covers consists of superior quality aluminum tubes. Yes, no need to weight down the lamps for winter, that is very old school. Then cut off the excess cord at the junction box and wire the power leads to the light cable as before. Pull the new cable thru, but leave 4-5 ft so the lamp can be pulled up on deck later for service. First stretch out the lamp to the shallow end and remove the coils in the cable, and it may help to have a helper helping to push the cable into the conduit, while you pull on the other end. I normally cut off the cord on the back of the existing lamp and strip off the cord casing, wind the old wires and new wires together, wrap very tightly in a few layers of duct tape in different diagonal directions, and then with power off of course, open the junction box and disconnect the old light cable and start pulling the new cord thru, by pulling out the old cord. Hi Curtis, yes the cord passes thru the hole in the back of the light niche and runs to the junction box. If an appliance is dropped into the pool, a GFCI outlet should shut off the power in 1/4 second, but if not, unplug the power cord first! Do not dive in after your expensive device, or attempt to pull someone who is being shocked to safety, unplug the cord or shut off the power. Rechargeable tools and radios are the safer alternative. Sadly, a few electrical accidents around pools are not the result of faulty pool electrical wiring, but from radios, power drills, hair dryers or other electrical items, plugged in and dropped into the pool. I recommend having an electrician replace GFCI breakers and outlets used on a pool – every 30 years. You should also test them regularly, by pushing the Test button, to be sure it quickly interrupts the circuit. ![]() ![]() The outlet serves as secondary protection to the breaker, both will trip if they sense a voltage variance, or voltage going to ground.īoth GFI breakers and outlets can, and will eventually fail. Often the same circuit is used to power a GFCI electrical outlet underneath the pool sub panel. These are often easy to spot by the yellow Test button, and are usually 20 amp breakers. The pool light must be installed on a GFCI circuit. That means that the wires coming to the pool light J-box must come from a GFCI breaker. This helps protect the connection from the possible deterioration from water and chemicals. An electrical potting compound is put over the grounding connection, the termination encapsulated in a wet niche potting compound. Inside the wet niche there is a grounding lug that must have a bare copper wire connected to it, normally this a continuous ground around the entire pool. Both ground wires from the light and breaker are connected together and pig-tailed to a green ground screw inside the J-box.Īn electrician should ground the light niche, to protect against any stray voltage. The junction box should be 18″ above the water level, to keep pool water out. But the Sloan pool had low voltage, 12V lighting, which can also be unsafe when mis-wired, and when GFCI’s fail to interrupt the circuit.Īs shown in the image, the light cord wires run in conduit (pipe) from the back of the light niche, to the junction box where the wires connect to the wires coming from the GFCI breaker. When Calder Sloan, a 7 yr old Florida boy, was fatally shocked by a pool light in 2014, there was a great debate over whether 120V pool lights should be banned. Pool lights are naturally seen as the most obvious risk area for pool electrocution, being a light that’s underwater. ![]()
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